Pro-cycling thread

https://ethiascross.be/bredene-2/

Start list for Wednesday's cross here. Only VDP of the 3 contenders (are we including Pidcock now?).

So probably VDP to win, is it even worth watching the men?

evergreen question

Isebeyrt might get angry. Always worth a watch.

Dislocated his elbow when Corne Van Kessel ran it over at Zolder on Saturday. Don't think he'll be racing for a week or two.

Thanks for sharing. English subtitles don't seem to be available, which is a shame as the Dumoulin bits seemed to be the most interesting and emotional.

Just how shocked the team were at Pogacar's strength on that TT stage comes across loud and clear though, as it did at the time.

Dumoulin suffered a huge saddle sore which lead to a lot of problems for him, not in the least the emotions and anguish, but he wanted no-one to know about it. So everyone not directly involved with the team just found out 2 days ago. You probably got that he was moaning and complaining a lot, he even said he felt afraid during descents... He said in an interview that if he would have been in the DS's seat he would have had a lot less patience with himself as a rider ;-)

That TT truly was incredible stuff.

Anyone have tips on how to watch that Jumbo doc from the UK?

This seems to work for me;

https://nos.nl/artikel/2362227-zadelpijn-zat-dumoulin-dwars-tijdens-tour-overal-pijn-dit-kan-zo-niet-langer.html

thanks. funny, can follow broadly the subs with my german but when they start speaking straight dutch... whoosh

Thanks. You deserve a candy ;-)

Thanks. Yes, a shame for him, fingers crossed he can avoid issues in 2021. He’s my GC guy, other than forum-favourite Tao of course.

Corne Van Kessel ran it over

Is that what happened? Couldn't understand from the videos

There was a slow motion shot of Van Kessel's front wheel hitting Iserbyt's elbow, followed by Van Kessel going down. I don't know if that caused the injury, but being hit by a carbon rim was probably a decent blow.

Pro Cycling Stats is doing a top 500 of its users’ favourite riders, whatever that means.

On the basis that D Millar, Hamilton and De Luca are in the top 200, I’m looking forward to the amount of piss boiling when Armstrong makes the top 10.

Pidcock at 151 🤷🏼‍♂️

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can't believe it's been 6 years since david millar retired from riding his bike fast for cash

whatever that means.

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where were you when he retired?

it was kind of a fizzling out wasn't it? he blew up at Jonathan vaughters on twidder for not picking him for the tdf. did he race the commonwealth games? i was in Glasgow for that but I went to watch weightlifting instead. women's 50kg or something. miles more impressive than the big lads

Must have flown by for him with all of his Maserati stuff and the £300 bib shorts company.

So a panache thing basically with points for being a nice guy added on top.

And Pidcock is at 151 despite having done close to zero WT races (on the road).

That’s the general public for you.

can't wait for 2020 to be over

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I saw some great shots of mr. Soup braving it through a deep puddle on my Instagram Explore tab yesterday, think they were a story as they're not on his profile anymore.

mr. Soup braving it through a deep mud soup

Fixed. In future, you will not miss such opportunities again, yeah? :)

you've saved 2020 with your deft and razor sharp humour. three cheers for LUFGUSS user oliver schick!

hip hip!

I'm glad I've clearly caused you to be so up!